Originally Posted by kevinheap

Thanks everyone for the replies. I checked with another nearby mechanic and he said he was more. I was just kind of hoping he might take a good look at it and find something I might miss. I will do it myself next time. You would think at $100 an hour you could put in the parts and charge $100 for labor and keep the customer happy in case he had a big job sometime. I clean windows and shoot for $50 an hour so I can afford to hire a pro if he is not more than $100 per hour but in this case I think this is the kind of thing they really mark up. I better just dig in and do this stuff myself more often.

I have replace control arms on a BMW 318ti and pushed in the bushings myself at home, brake on the 150 and fuel filter so I can do more stuff and learn about the car in the mean time.

Thanks again.